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...Academy Award in Monster's Ball. Perfect Stranger represents the nadir in this line of thinking. She's Rowena Price, a hard-charging investigative reporter, whose main line of work seems to be catching prominent males in sexually compromised activity. Her putative victim is a high-profile ad man named Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) who may or may not have murdered her best childhood friend. Her modus operandi is to assume a couple of false identities - among them an Internet chatroom tease. She is also plagued by bad dreams hinting that she was a sexually abused child...
...that you don't influence behavior by telling people what to do. You do it by exposing them to enough cases of people behaving well that it creates a new norm. What made the designated-driver concept catch on in the 1980s was partly that Harvard and the ad agencies it worked with persuaded TV networks to slip the idea into their shows. There's a reason a designated-driver poster appeared in the bar on Cheers, and it's not because it made the jokes funnier...
...relieved that my pain was no longer a secret, so I went to her office and tried to explain my situation. I left with the relief tempered by a new kind of desperation, as I thought that I would likely fail one or two classes and that the ad board would require me to withdraw for a year. I couldn’t imagine a more embarrassing and frightening consequence than being forced to leave my life at Harvard.Though one of my professors arranged a way for me to pass with extra work, I had done irreparable damage...
...between this year’s and last year’s Yardfest?S. Adam Goldenberg: The most significant difference is that this year the organization is much more student driven. Last year it was organized by administrators and students that called the Yard Fest committee, it was an ad hoc committee brought together by the campus life fellow.2. FM: How is it different now that students are more involved in the planning?A: Everything from Mem steps down to the yard is being planned by the CEB. Everything from the steps up toward the church is being planned...
...only way to make a lasting change in culture is with student involvement. I don’t think the Ad Board would have the practical ability or the moral authority to do this,” he added...